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| − | |author=Olga Tokarczuk
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| − | |title=House of Day, House of Night
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''
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| − | The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.
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| − | |isbn=1804271918
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| − | '''25 SEPTEMBER'''
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| − | |author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)
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| − | |title=The Other Girl
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| − | |genre=Autobiography
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| − | |summary=''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.''
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| − | Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.
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| − | '''9 OCTOBER'''
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| − | |author=Claire-Louise Bennett
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| − | |title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.
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| − | |author=Thea Lenarduzzi
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| − | |title=The Tower
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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| − | In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy.
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| − | '''23 OCTOBER'''
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| − | |author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator)
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| − | |title=Vaim
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.
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